1) yes. Been dancing this issue for a while. Let's pull the trigger. Did the exercise with Tachyon while back and did help readability and homogeneity of code.
2) +1 for Google Java style with documented exceptions and explanation on why. On Tuesday, October 20, 2015, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> wrote: > DISCLAIMER: This is not my personal idea, but a community discussion from > some time ago. Don't kill the messenger. > > In March we were discussing issues with heterogeneity of the code [1]. The > summary is that we had a consensus to enforce a stricter code style on our > Java code base in order to make it easier to switch between projects and to > have clear rules for new contributions. The main proposal in the last > discussion was to go with Google's Java code style. Not all were fully > satisfied with this, but still everyone agreed on some kind of style. > > I think the upcoming 0.10 release is a good point to finally go through > with these changes (right after the release/branch-off). > > I propose to go with Google's Java code style [2] as proposed earlier. > > PROs: > - Clear style guide available > - Tooling like checkstyle rules, IDE plugins already available > > CONs: > - Fully breaks our current style > > The main problem with this will be open pull requests, which will be harder > to merge after all the changes. On the other hand, should pull requests > that have been open for a long time block this? Most of the important > changes will be merged for the release anyways. I think in the long run we > will gain more than we loose by this (more homogenous code, clear rules). > And it is questionable whether we will ever be able to do such a change in > the future if we cannot do it now. The project will most likely grow and > attract more contributors, at which point it will be even harder to do. > > Please make sure to answer the following points in the discussion: > > 1) Are you (still) in favour of enforcing stricter rules on the Java > codebase? > > 2) If yes, would you be OK with the Google's Java code style? > > – Ufuk > > [1] > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/flink-dev/201503.mbox/%3ccanc1h_von0b5omnwzxchtyzwhakeghbzvquyk7s9o2a36b8...@mail.gmail.com%3e > > [2] https://google.github.io/styleguide/javaguide.html >
